LETTER: Answer to school gunmen is faith, family, fellowship and professional, armed security

Times have changed since I was a boy in the 1970s when people were protesting the TV show “Starsky and Hutch” for being too violent.

Parents could come and go as they pleased in the school because the doors were not locked; all the parent had to do was see the secretary in the office. Back then only a few children in the whole school had a single out-of-wedlock mom or divorced parents. We also learned traditional Christmas carols in public school and even performed them!

Unfortunately, now we have concerns about our children’s safety while they are in school. Will a deranged gunman show up in our town? The days of a sweet little old lady sitting at a desk near the front door of the school are over. Guns are not going away and they should not be. Do we really want the government, terrorists, insane and criminals being the only ones with guns?

However, it is time for better security at all our schools, such as professionally monitored surveillance cameras and well-trained armed security officers. Family Court has them, the local, state and federal government building have armed security, why not our local schools? The money is available; we the people just need to rework the budgets.

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This is no game, folks, if it can happen in Newtown and Columbine and, then, again about 8 miles away from Columbine, then it can happen here!

So what is the real answer to stopping gun violence? What we need most of all is faith, family and fellowship.